So I went, parson being a persuasive kind of man.

"No parsons for me," was the rejoinder.

But those London parsons, sir, what's the matter with them?

But where's Master Parson? JOAN.

The first parson at the chapel in Parker-street was the Rev. Robert Eltringham; since then the following have been at itthe Revs.

The master-captain Parson was a thorough seaman with a heart as big as an ox.

Parsons is our head-porter, and perhaps he is the sublimest of them all.

Pa was watching the crowd for the sailor who prescribed cayenne pepper for yellow fever, and when he saw the sailor come up to the minister, with tears in his eyes, and say: "Parson, I has been a bad man and killed a man once, but he was a Portuguese sailor, and he had the drop on me, the same as you did on Big Ike at the opening of these proceedings, and I had to kill him.

Then the parsons would be dilatory and troublesome and expensive, and a good many people were apt to think that they could do very well without ceremonies.

The Parson was Mercy's only frequent visitor; and Stephen knew very well that he had become her teacher and her guide, that she referred every question to his decision, and was guided implicitly by his taste and wish in her writing and in her studies.

His model of an English member of parliament votes in opposition, as his Good Parson is a nonjuror, and the Fox in the fable of Old Chaucer is translated into a puritan.

No sagacious reader of the present book can doubt that this parson, at least, is an exception to the general rule; for he palpably knows more of the world than most men who have made it a special study.

The parson was no longer a priest, and had long been a small squire.

The parsons are the workers now-a-daysor rather, all the world expects them to be so.

"Doctor," said John, as he came out of the rectory to assist Clara from the gig, "the parson here is a careful driver; see, he has not turned a hair.

And the parsons of the past were also a blithesome set of individuals.

The village parson is quite a character.

" The Parson was a magistrate, and, for no known reason, Butts always addressed him as such.

We got some pretty fancy passengers aboard, and I'll bet my shirt the parson and Mr. Trenhum knows; and what's more, that parson ain't no more a parson than I beif he's a parson I'm a bishop.

" "Ay, ay, Madam," returned the worthy Bignall, whose feelings had been not a little disturbed by the previous scene; "it is near half a century since the Parson and I were boys together, and we have been rubbing up old recollections on the cruise.

Parsons and his comrades were revolutionary trade unionists, they were Anarcho-Syndicalists rather than Anarchists.

William Parsons, Earl of Rosse (b. in York 1800, d. 1867), F.R.S., was a very distinguished astronomer who experimented in fluid lenses and made great improvements in casting specula for reflecting telescopes.

Mrs. Parsons, one of the sisters, became Mary Lamb's nurse when, some time after Lamb's death, she moved to 41 Alpha Road, Mrs. Parsons' house.

Now a country parson, who is also a magistrate, becomes in time a shrewd judge of men.

Sir Charles Parsons (b. 1854), F.R.S., fourth son of the third Earl of Rosse, is the engineer who developed the steam turbine system and made it suitable for the generation of electricity, and for the propulsion of war and mercantile vessels.